lithographs and photographs bcs = hal = lab = lat = met = min = Bel Canto Society Archive Nuala Hallinan Lablache Archives Ralph Latimer The Metropolitan Opera Archives Charles Mintzer nar = par = rad = rca = ros = zuc = Dr. Gian Paolo Nardoianni PARS Media James-Daniel Radiches RCA Records Rosen Productions Stefan Zucker Collection 4 10 18 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 33 35 36 38 40 42 43 44 Franco Corelli (rad) Franco Corelli and Stefan Zucker (zuc) Mario Del Monaco as Ernani (met) Corelli as Andrea Chénier (met) Corelli as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur (met) Del Monaco (bcs) Corelli as Canio in Pagliacci (bcs) Del Monaco as Canio (bcs) Del Monaco as Chénier (met) Del Monaco as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (met) Miguel Fleta (bcs) Corelli as Ernani (bcs) Corelli as Radamès (met) Corelli (lat) Del Monaco as Otello (bcs) Del Monaco and Maria Caniglia (bcs) 11
45 46 47 48 50 53 54 56 57 59 60 61 62 63 64 66 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 77 78 79 81 82 84 87 88 92 93 95 96 97 98 99 Corelli as Chénier (bcs) Corelli as Werther (met) Del Monaco as Pery in Antônio Carlos Gomes s Il Guarany (bcs) Enrico Caruso as il Duca in Rigoletto (met) Gilbert-Louis Duprez (met) Duprez (bcs) Adolphe Nourrit (bcs) Giovanni Battista Rubini (bcs) Domenico Donzelli (bcs) Donzelli (bcs) Nicolas-Prosper Levasseur, Nourrit and Marie-Cornélie Falcon in Meyerbeer s Robert le diable (bcs) Donzelli (lab) Nourrit (lab) Duprez as Arnold in Guillaume Tell (lab) Jean de Reszke as Rodrigue in Massenet s Le Cid (met) Jean de Reszke as Tristan (met) Édouard de Reszke as Méphistophélès in Faust (met) Mario (Giovanni Matteo de Candia) (met) Corelli, John Reardon and Robert Schmorr in Roméo et Juliette (met) Jean de Reszke as Roméo (met) Jean de Reszke as Raoul in Les Huguenots (met) Jean de Reszke as Siegfried (met) Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Tamagno (bcs) Tamagno as Manrico in Il trovatore (met) Tamagno as Radamès in Aïda (bcs) Giuseppe ( José Nicolás) Oxilia (bcs) Giovanni Battista De Negri (bcs) Tamagno (bcs) Tamagno as Otello (bcs) Tamagno as Otello (met) Fernando De Lucia, Mario Ancona and Nellie Melba in Pagliacci (bcs) De Lucia (bcs) De Lucia (met) Roberto Stagno (met) Sebastián Julián Gayarre Garjón (bcs) Angelo Masini (met) Dino Borgioli as il Duca (met) De Lucia as Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana (bcs) 12
100 103 105 106 109 111 112 114 115 116 118 121 123 124 125 126 131 132 133 134 136 141 142 144 146 149 150 157 158 161 162 164 166 167 168 173 175 176 179 Caruso as Canio (ros) Caruso as Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West (met) Caruso as Rodolfo in La bohème (met) Aureliano Pertile (bcs) Pertile as Edgardo in Lucia (met) Alessandro Bonci as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera (min) Pertile (min) Pertile (met) Pertile (met) Giovanni Martinelli as Otello (met) Martinelli and Martinelli as Jean in Meyerbeer s Le Prophète (met) Martinelli as Cavaradossi in Tosca (met) Martinelli as Eléazar in La Juive (met) Martinelli as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra (met) Tito Schipa as Des Grieux in Massenet s Manon (met) Schipa as il Duca (met) Schipa as Werther (bcs) Beniamino Gigli as Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer s L Africana (bcs) Gigli as Riccardo in Ballo (bcs) Gigli as il Duca (bcs) Giacomo Lauri-Volpi as il Duca (met) Lauri-Volpi as a boy (bcs) Lauri-Volpi (met) Lauri-Volpi as Andrea Chénier (min) Lauri-Volpi and Antonio Cotogni (bcs) Lauri-Volpi and Maria Jeritza in Turandot (met) Lauri-Volpi in La canzone del sole (bcs) Lauri-Volpi as Cavaradossi (met) Lauri-Volpi as Chénier (met) Gina Cigna and Lauri-Volpi in Turandot (met) Lauri-Volpi as Canio (met) 13
180 181 182 184 187 190 192 195 196 198 201 202 204 205 207 208 211 212 213 214 217 220 222 223 224 225 226 230 231 232 234 235 236 238 240 241 242 243 244 Franco at Loretta s house at Cortina d Ampezzo (bcs) Lauri-Volpi singing at Gigli s funeral (bcs) Lauri-Volpi as Radamès (met) Lauri-Volpi as Arnoldo in Tell (met) Lauri-Volpi as Rodolfo in Luisa Miller (met) Lauri-Volpi as Enzo Grimaldo in La Gioconda (met) Jussi Björling as Don Carlo (met) Björling as Rodolfo in Bohème (met) Ferruccio Tagliavini as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (met) Richard Tucker as Dick Johnson in Fanciulla (met) Tucker as Enzo (met) Del Monaco as Otello (met) Del Monaco and Gigliola Frazzoni in Fanciulla (bcs) Del Monaco as Chénier (bcs) Del Monaco as Otello (met) Del Monaco as Chénier (met) Del Monaco (bcs) Del Monaco during a rehearsal of Samson et Dalila (bcs) Del Monaco as Énée in Les Troyens (bcs) Giuseppe Di Stefano as Faust (met) Del Monaco and Di Stefano (bcs) Di Stefano (rad) Di Stefano as il Duca (met) Di Stefano, his wife Monika Curth and Di Stefano as Wilhelm Meister in Mignon (met) Di Stefano as Nemorino in L elisir d amore (met) Luciano Pavarotti as Manrico (met) Pavarotti (bcs) Pavarotti as il Duca (met) Plácido Domingo as Don José in Carmen (met) Domingo as Otello (met) Domingo as Don José (met) Domingo (met) José Carreras and Katia Ricciarelli in Bohème (bcs) Stagno (met) Enrico Tamberlik (met) Ernesto Nicolini (met) De Lucia (met) Pertile as Cavaradossi (met) 14
245 246 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 260 261 265 268 271 275 279 282 285 291 292 294 296 298 301 304 307 310 311 319 324 380 382 383 383 384 Italo Campanini (bcs) Rubini (bcs) Galliano Masini (bcs) Martinelli as Pollione in Norma (met) Caruso as il Duca (met) Tagliavini (met) Del Monaco as Manrico (met) Martinelli as Radamès (met) Gigli as Radamès (bcs) Gigli as Radamès (bcs) Tucker as Radamès (met) Del Monaco as Radamès (met) Di Stefano preparing for Radamès (bcs) Corelli as Radamès (met) Carlo Bergonzi as Radamès (met) Jon Vickers as Radamès (met) Domingo as Radamès (met) Pavarotti as Radamès (met) Corelli as Cavaradossi (met) Bonci (min) Lauri-Volpi at his desk (nar) Del Monaco (nar) Lauri-Volpi as il Duca (nar) Björling as Cavaradossi (met) Björling as Manrico (met) Corelli as Don Alvaro in La forza del destno (bcs) Corelli in his dressing room (bcs) Corelli with his dog, taken by Joan Baum (hal) Martinelli as Otello (met) Zucker as Salvini in Bellini s Adelson e Salvini (rca) Zucker with Magda Olivero (par) Zucker (zuc) Zucker (zuc) Zucker interviewing Leyla Gencer (par) 15